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Revised 12/21/82 <br />• <br />mining. Plate 17 shows the location and size of the various sedimentation <br />ponds. Upon completion of the mining, these ponds will be removed. Topsoil <br />will be stripped off and the ponds graded to final contours as shown on <br />Plate 20. The topsoil will then be put back and seeded with the Inix listed <br />in the reclamation plan. The office-shop complex will be removed following <br />cessation of mining and the areas reclaimed to the standard of the reclamation <br />planned for adjacent areas on the Bourg property. <br />Mining Techniques. The overburden will be ripped with large bulldozers <br />and removed with large scrapers. In the stripping operation, a small amount <br />of coal is bound to be mixed with the overburden. This amount will be kept <br />to a minimum. <br />Nearby mines lightly blast the coal, and if necessary the coal at <br />the Bourg property will be drilled and lightly blasted with ammonium nitrate <br />• explosives. It was noted in the coring of the coal that it is unusually <br />fractured, pl•obably due to the tight folding and to the faulting. Therefore, <br />it Inay well prove unnecessary to blast the coal. <br />If blasting becomes necessary, a blasting plan will be submitted to the <br />MLR for approval at least sixty (60) days prior to the initiation of the <br />Y blasting program. The nearest ranch houses are 2§ miles away to the north- <br />east at the Streit Ranch. The other nearest buildings frequented by people <br />are at the Continental Oil Company installation 2; miles to the northwest. <br />It is planned either to load rear-dump irightvay trucks in the pit <br />with a portable crusher and to haul the coal directly to market or to <br />haul the cgqoal to the hlorthgate loadout for crushing and to transport to <br />.u4! Y. L't. .f t; lil ~.""i.C I'J ~, 111J sLJlc h.iJ b~Ln :II:. L..11~~1 ~. 11 LI„' ~ I~~.I1C1 ty. <br />Stages 1 - 3. Table 4 shor•+s the production of coal, removal of <br />overburden, dumping of overburden, and the rate of topsoil <br /> <br />D-3 <br />_ 1R, ., _ .. _ __. <br />